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Phone-out of digital to line-in of laptop. Recorded with Mp3 Wave Editor freeware.

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This is another one of my Canto-pop songs. "Shanghai Tan" is commonly known as "the Bund" in English. ("Tan" means beach or strand - you thought it's the latest Olympic suntan fashion, eh? ) It's the famous river promenade in Shanghai. The song was written for a prime time TV soap opera of the same name. It was produced in Hong Kong in 1980 and the song has become a "classic". The show was set in the 1920s during the fading glory days of Shanghai. It's about passion, betrayal, crime, decadence - the "stuff" of soap opera. As an aside, Chow Yun Fat of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" fame starred in the show. I don't think he'd acquired international fame at that time.

This is the first time I really wish my digital (or may be the computer sound card) can capture and/or produce a better sound. The timbre of the recording is very tin-ny, and cannot express the drama that I was hoping for.

Finally, I am tempted to thank those who nudged me about submitting to this recital. You know who you *all* are! But on second thought, I don't want to encourage such behavior in the future, so I am withholding my thanks after all!

This is what happens if you procrastinate till the last minute. Since I didn't have any recital piece ready I decided that if I just play something easy, it'll be OK. Well, it's all wrong. My new laptop had difficulty connecting to the interface, there was a ground loop somewhere, one of the channels connectors broke (EMU0202 interface has XLR connector on one channel - that's the one that broke, and RCA on another, weird, isn't it?) - so I had to record mono; to add insult to injury, when I listened to what I recorded, I heard that my tempo floated from andante to allegretto and back :-( Now, that's new: consider it a "romanticized Mozart" or "rubatized Mozart." Still, this is a lovely easy sonata, one of the best proofs of Mozart's genius.

I recorded this at a recording studio session that was bought for me as a birthday present. It was very fancy and high-tech!

I know this recording isn't perfect. The main problem with this piece is that I do not play very evenly at high speeds and so it loses its waltz feel. I'd appreciate any tips on how I might be able to improve this. It is also well over one minute long!

This piece, though easy to learn and commit to memory, has been the most technical piece I have tried. It is still not quite where I want it as far as accuracy and the technique will come as I gain more experience. My teacher and I could not find a definitive original solo score (originally written for four hands) so I took some liberties and combined aspects I liked from each of the scores I did find to come up with a few mostly unnoticeable variations. I know it's not a perfect performance and some parts are a bit choppy, but my goal since coming aboard here has become to submit for each recital. This was especially difficult since the last day to submit has been my first day off work for most of the two week submission period. Enjoy.

Plan A was Bethena; not ready. Plan B was Bach Invention; sprained fingers curtailed practice time. So this is Plan C. I've played it for a while now, so I did this in only a few takes. Need to return the sprained finger to a splint and lay off piano for a few days!

Träumerei is a very beautiful piece which I learned to play a few months ago and decided to give it a try at recording it for the recital. Too bad my connecting cable is in bad shape and I couldn't get a quality sound out of the recording.